Rugby League Live presents a solid enough game of footy, but it’s depressingly light on the features that diehard series fans have come to expect, and it’s presentation is about as rough as Phil Gould’s face. EA Sports is often criticised for merely updating player rosters and throwing in a few token gameplay features with each of its annual releases, but the developers of Rugby League Live have committed a far more heinous act by adding nothing at all and taking so much away. If it wasn’t for the fact that the game remains reasonably fun with a handful of your footyhead friends, this would be the worst thing to happen to the sport of rugby league since the Melbourne Storm cheated and the Matty Johns Show got the green light. Here’s hoping Big Ant Studios returns to the developer interchange bench and Sidhe gets back on the field with the franchise next year.
